More proof coffee might actually be good for you


The health benefits (or harms) of coffee have been the subject of great attention. As with chocolate, coffee devotees would very much like for their daily addiction to be benign, if not beneficial.
Aaron Carroll takes an exhaustive look at the evidence below, and comes to the surprising conclusion that not only is coffee basically fine, in moderation it actually appears to have significant protective effects on the liver, of all things. So drink up! Just don't overdo it with the cream and sugar. Ryan Cooper
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Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.
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